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Well done DevTeam, the new sky effects look fantastic (EMF-L sunset over Bandirna)

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KTO TASMO (TE by Bloodhound) outbound from Fukuoka

All the best,

Uwe

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Having good fun and enjoying a nice view for any sniper pod user in Lorik’s EMF-L “red sky” campi (day 5).

All the best,

Uwe

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More sunset impressions from EMF-L

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And a “BMS on other platforms” section please while we’re at it where we can organize all the info relating to running BMS on WINE, parallels, as a dedicated server and so on?

Thanks for your consideration!

Uwe

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Hi folks,

some team members have reported issues trying to download & seed the 4.36 torrent using the trusty cross-platform “transmission” torrent client.

I’ve looked into the issue and it might be related to 4.36 being a “hybrid v2” torrent file which transmission doesn’t support (yet) in its current version, however a patch will be included in the next release:

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/1964

If you are having issues downloading BMS 4.36 using transmission please consider an alernative client like vuze or qbittorrent (also cross-platform) which support this format already.

Thanks for your understanding & all the best,

Uwe

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Hi folks,

thanks to @MaxWaldorf the new forum comes with a plugin which allows easy “hands off the mouse” keyboard shortcuts for several forum functions.

Please find below the list of keyboard shortcuts I’ve been able to find so far, and please feel free to add any others you may come across.

Alt-t: open “tag” page
Alt-p: open “popular” page
Alt-g: open “groups” page
Alt-o: open “options” (profile) page?
Alt-s: open “users” page
Alt-h: open “home” / “categories” page
Alt-n: open “notifications” page

“?”: open nodeBB keyboard plugin “Help” page
j / k: move up / down in the list of topics / replies
Alt-u: List of unread topics
Alt-r: List of recently changed topics
r: reload page
t / b: go to top / bottom of page
Alt-Enter: Reply to topic / post

Ctrl-Enter: Send reply (use in post editor)

Enter: enter / display topic

Backspace: Up one level (back to topic list)
Alt-c: Open chat screen

If you would like to remap these shortcuts to other keys (or maybe you have been using my greasemonkey script on the old forum pages for easy keyboard navigation), then I have good news for you: A customized version of this script is also available for greasemonkey / tampermonkey on all half-way modern browsers which will bring back all the old keyboard mappings to the way they worked on the old forum.

You can find the script here:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/433433-nodebb-remap-shortcuts

I’ve also included the source code below (make sure to replace “hoover” with your username for the chat shortcut to work as described in the comment).

// ==UserScript==
// @name                nodeBB remap shortcuts
// @namespace	        https://hoover.gplrank.de/
// @description	        remaps various nodeBB keyboard shortcuts to simple keypresses
// @description         author: hoover
// @description         You'll need to replace "hoover" with your forum username for the "chat" link to work below.
// @include             http*://forum.falcon-bms.com/*
// 
// @version 0.0.2.20211018140000
// ==/UserScript==
 
function findTopicLink()
{
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
    var href="/unread";
    for (var i = 0  ; i < anchors.length ; i++) {
       href = anchors[i].getAttribute('href');
       if (href) {
          if(href.match(/topic/)) {
              return(href);
             break ;
 
             }
          }
       }
}
 
var key_map = {
    "N" : "/unread",
    "R": "/recent",
    "P": "/popular",
    "H": "/",
    "C": "/user/hoover/chats",
    "S": "/search",
    "M": "/notifications",
    "G": findTopicLink()
    }
 
// stolen shamelessly from userscript.org's facebook key navigation
// Thanks to Droll Troll
 
function OnKeyUp(e)
{
  
 
    if (String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode) in key_map && 	
	(typeof e.target.type == "undefined" || (e.target.type != "text" && e.target.type != "textarea")) && 
	!e.altKey && !e.ctrlKey && e.keyCode <= 90)
    {
	window.location.replace(key_map[String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode)])
    }
}
 
 
window.addEventListener("keyup",function(event) { OnKeyUp(event); },false)

All the best & I hope you enjoy’ll enjoy easy, hands-off-the-mouse keyboard navigation from now on

Uwe

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late afternoon / evening strike mission in Lorik’s EMF-L campi “double front”

All the best,

Uwe

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Hi folks,

I’ve made some tests with BMS 4.36 on Linux / WINE. After installing Falcon 4.0 using my GOG.com installer version, the BMS installer starts up fine, checksums look ok but as soon as I start the installation process, I get a message about the installer being unable to create the “User/Config” directory and the installer just hangs afterwards until I kill it.

I’ve tried manually creating the User/Config dir in my WINEPREFIX directory (default ~/.wine), but that hasn’t helped, either. The Installer will run but only 16kb are allocated in the bms install directory which is, well, not very much

Wine version: 5.0 (ubuntu / Linux Mint)
Emulated windows version: win7

I’d love to hear of your experiences with 4.36 on Linux.

Cheers & all the best,

Uwe

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@snake122 said in Another F16 entry coming "someday"?:

. But that was also because there was a vacuum in the civilian sim market with the period of time between MSFS versions (despite XPlane still being a good solution).

With regard to realism, immersion and system depth, XPlane 11 is still miles ahead of anything MSFS has to offer at the moment. If you take a peek at the xp12 preview screenshots I’d say it won’t be too far off from MSFS “good looks”.

Also, XPlane’s multi platform support is a godsend to those of us who haven’t booked a one way trip on the Microsoft bandwagon, looking for a viable alternative to an OS that gets ever more encroaching on the user’s privacy and control over his / her own hardware with every new “release”.

So calling the time between FS releases a “vacuum” is a wee bit off the mark IMHO, to say the least In the same vein please don’t forget “flightgear” either which has come along nicely in the last couple of years.

All the best,

Uwe

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Hey Logic,

I just tried your tool for the first time over the last couple of days and it’s very useful, thanks for creating it.

Would it be possible to modify the batch script to accept a command line parameter indicating the theatre ezboards should update the kneeboards for? Then maybe we could create a simple map and use some form of gui scripting framework (pyqt comes to mind) to have the user select the theatre and then call ezboards with the correct parameter.

Maybe a simple dictionary could be used like so:

installed_theatres = {
kto = { "has_koreaobj" : True,
"dds_output_dir : "D:\bms\bms436\Data..." 
...
},
ito =  { "has_koreaobj" : False,
"dds_output_dir : "D:\bms\bms436\Data\ITO\..." 
...

and so forth. It would also be great if we could pull the current theatre from the registry or wherever it’s stored, and support multiple BMS installs (for those of us who regularly beta test new internal releases, but that’s easily handled by keeping 2 ezboard installs separately).

Just an idea…

All the best,

Uwe

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Thanks folks!

All the best,

Uwe

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Hey foxster,

I’m just trying out the latest release, and I’m seeing a lot of invalid voice recognition attempts from foxvox when it shouldn’t even be listening (with “push to talk” enabled).

would it be difficult to turn off Voice recognition completely when PPT is enabled and the button combo is not pressed? that’s the only time I want foxvox to listen for commands, it should be turned off / inactive / not attempting to make sense of all other sound inputs when the PTT button is not pressed / active.

All the best,

Uwe